noíb

• nóeb

From Proto-Celtic *noibos (compare Gaulish Noibio), from Proto-Indo-European *neybʰ- (“blessed, holy, fortunate”); cognate with Old Persian 𐎴𐎡𐎲 (n-i-b /⁠naibaʰ⁠/, “good, beautiful”) (Persian نیو (niv, “brave, valiant”)).

• IPA^(key): (all genders nominative sg, m/n dative/accusative sg, all genders genitive pl)
• IPA^(key): (m vocative/genitive sg, f dative/accusative sg, n genitive sg; m nominative pl)

noíb

1. holy, sacred
2. (nominalized) saint

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20^b2

  Is airi da·rogart-som noíb, ar frith⟨t⟩uidecht innaní as·rubartatar nád robae remdéicsiu ná láthar nDǽ dïa dúlib.

  It is for this reason that he has called himself a saint, because of the opposition of those who have said that there is neither providence nor dispensation of God for his creatures.

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51^a18

  In tan imme·romastar són nach noíb, ara cuintea dílgud Dé isind aimsir sin.

  That is, when any saint sins, that he may seek the forgiveness of God at that time.

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 69^a21

  Co n-epred, “Du·gén a nnoíb sa ⁊ ní digén ⟨a n-⟩ærgarth{a}e se, cid accubur lium”; ní eper insin.

  So that he should say, “I will do this holy thing and I will not do this forbidden thing, though it is a desire of mine”; he does not say that.

• noíbaid

• Middle Irish: náem
  • Irish: naomh
  • Manx: noo
  • Scottish Gaelic: naomh

·noíb

1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of noíbaid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “noíb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language